Labor official says Walker ad showing governor climbing out of hole sets unsafe example
MILWAUKEE — It's not uncommon for political candidates to engage in mudslinging, but in Wisconsin's governor's race there's actual dirt involved.
It all started last week when Republican Gov. Scott Walker's campaign released an ad titled "Comeback," which opens with him standing in an earthen hole about 6 feet deep. He tells the camera his opponent, Democrat Mary Burke, supported policies that put Wisconsin in a hole with high taxes, a deficit and a loss of 133,000 Wisconsin jobs. Then he touts aspects of his record while climbing a ladder.
Burke's campaign fired back with "Stop Digging," an ad that contends it was Walker's policies that put Wisconsin in a hole. A narrator asks Walker to stop digging, as dirt is shown flying through the air as if being tossed by a shovel.
The back-and-forth took an unconventional turn, however, when a union official stepped in to criticize Walker's ad — not for its content, but for setting a poor example by failing to take safety precautions when filming it.
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Walker can't even dig a hole correctly. 
